Red
VITALITY, COURAGE, SELF CONFIDENCE
Use when you need to meet a demanding day, or when you feel drained of energy. The color red provides the power from the earth and gives energy on all levels. It connects us to our physical body. Everything that is to be commenced needs the life vitality of red.
Personality Traits: Courageous, confident, humanistic, strong-willed, spontaneous, honest, and extroverted. Red can help with creative power, sporting activities, sexual attraction, and can stimulate fun and laughter.
Red symbolizes energy, passion, strength, courage, physical activity, creativity, warmth and security. The Root Chakra is governed by the red energy. Element: Earth Sense: Smell Gemstones: Agate, Bloodstone, Hematite, Red Coral, Red Garnet and Ruby Herbs: Cedar, Clove, Pepper and Vetiver Orange
HAPPINESS, CONFIDENCE, RESOURCEFULNESS
Brings joy to our workday and strengthens our appetite for life! Orange is the best emotional stimulant. It connects us to our senses and helps to remove inhibitions and makes us independent and social.
Orange symbolizes the individual's relationship to the external world, the needs and wants of the physical body and the ways in which these are satisfied.
Personality Traits: Enthusiastic, happy, sociable, energetic, sporty, self-assured, and constructive
The Spleen Chakra is governed by the orange energy. Element: Water Sense: Taste
Gemstones: Carnelian, Coral, Gold calcite and Moonstone
Herbs: Damiana, Gardenia, Sandalwood and Ylang-Ylang Yellow
WISDOM, CLARITY, SELF-ESTEEM
Gives us clarity of thought, increases awareness, and stimulates interest and curiosity. Yellow energy is related to the ability to perceive and understand. The yellow energy connects us to our mental self.
Yellow is connected to the sun, joy, happiness, creativity, dreams and the ability to follow one's dreams, uplifting warmth, air, fire, youth, young energy, awareness of spiritual nature, purpose, and spiritual healing and leading.
Personality Traits: Good-humored, optimistic, confident, practical, and intellectual.
The Solar Plexus Chakra is governed by the yellow energy. Element: Fire Sense: Sight
Gemstones: Amber, Citrine, Tiger's Eye, Topaz and Yellow Sapphire
Herbs: Bergamot, Carnation, Lavender and Rosemary Green
BALANCE, LOVE, SELF CONTROL
Helps relax muscles, nerves, and thoughts. Cleanses and balances our energy, to give a feeling of renewal, peace and harmony. Green connects us to unconditional love and is used for balancing our whole being. Green is also associated with heart energy, money, prosperity, connections to nature, listening, caring for the environment, the color of life, calming, optimism and masculinity.
Personality Traits: Understanding, self-controlled, adaptable, sympathetic, compassionate, generous, humble, nature loving, and romantic.
The Heart Chakra is governed by the green energy, balancing and general healing. Element: Air Sense: Touch
Gemstones: Emerald, Green Jade and Malachite
Herbs: Marjoram and Orris root
Blue
KNOWLEDGE, HEALTH,
DECISIVENESS
This is a mentally-relaxing color. Blue has a pacifying effect on the nervous system and brings great relaxation. Ideal for sleep problems, and hyper-active children. Connects us to holistic thought, and gives us wisdom and clarity enhancing communication and speech.
Blue is associated with fifth, the throat, communications, expressing and receiving, abundance, grace, listening to one's intuition, and the sense of hearing. Blue is also connected with teaching and sensitivity.
Blue aids in cooling, calming and shielding.
Blue is connected to mind energy, water, stability, planning, business, technology and masculinity.
Blue is the color of spirituality, intuition, inspiration and inner peace.
Personality Traits: Loyal, tactful, affectionate, inspiring, inventive, caring, and cautious.
The Throat Chakra is governed by the blue energy. Element: Ether Sense: Sound
Gemstones: Aquamarine, Blue Sapphire, Chalcedony, Turquoise, Iolite and Lapis
Herbs: Benzoin, Eucalyptus, Frankincense and Sage
Indigo
INTUITION, MYSTICISM, UNDERSTANDING
The indigo energy connects us to our unconscious self, and gives us the experience of being part of the whole universe. Strengthens intuition, imagination, psychic powers, and increases dream activity. Indigo is associated with sixth, the third eye, brow, the center of objective reasoning, extra sensory perception and inner senses. It is also associated with moving toward a deeper connections to spirit.
Indigo can aid in opening the third eye and clearing the head.
Indigo is associated with psychic ability, night, mystery, magic and the moon.
Personality Traits: Intuitive, fearless, practical, idealistic, wise, and a truth seeker.
The Brow Chakra is governed by the indigo energy. Element: Light Sense: Extra sensory perception
Gemstones: Azurite, Calcite, Lapis Lazuli, Sodalite, Iolite and Quartz
Herbs: Jasmine, Mint, Mugwort, Star Anise Violet
BEAUTY, CREATIVITY, INSPIRATION
Purifies our thoughts and feelings giving us inspiration in all undertakings. The violet energy connects us to our spiritual self bringing guidance, wisdom and inner strength. Enhances artistic talent and creativity. Violet is associated with seventh, the crown, unity, connection, fatherhood and the sense of direction. It is also associated with a deeper connection to spirit.
Violet aids in connecting with one's spirit, taking away pain and purging unwanted emotional elements.
Violet is also associated with church, religion, community, royalty, the power of command and authority and the soul.
Violet is associated with power, both earthly and spiritual.
Personality Traits: Inspirational leaders, kindly and just, humanitarians, self-sacrificing, visionary, creative, and strong mentally.
The Crown Chakra is governed by the violet energy. Element: Thought Sense: Extra sensory perception
Gemstones: Amethyst and Alexandrite
Herbs: Lotus, Rose, Olibanum and Spruce White Qualities/Functions: Perfection, unity with the divine, wisdom and purpose and enlightenment.
White is associated with truth. It can aid in bringing peace and comfort as well as taking away pain.
White is also associated with purity, peace, patience, healing and protection from danger.
Element: Thought Sense: Extra sensory perception
Gemstones: Diamond, Pearl, Clear Quartz and Selenite
Herbs: Lotus, Rose, Olibanum and Spruce GOLD:
Is associated with a connection to God, and service for mankind.
The color gold can aid in restructuring and strengthening.
Gold is also associated with wealth, security and ease.
Gold represents understanding and luck. Gold is the most powerful healing color, but so powerful that many are not able to stand it initially and must be conditioned to via other colors. In the aura, gold signifies service to others.
In healing, Gold is one of the most powerful colors, as it aids in protection, purifying, detoxifying, and healing. When gold is used, it helps to revitalize and energize any problem areas and can have the most lasting effects more so than any other color. PINK:
Is associated with unconditional love, romance, purity, femininity, healing, and an opening to the spiritual self.
Pink represents the ultimate unconditional love, one that requires nothing in return. It is also the color of friendship.
In the aura, pink signifies balance between the spiritual and the material.
In healing, pink can be used to awaken compassion, love, and purity. It eases conditions of anger and feelings of neglect. It helps stimulate the thymus gland and the immune system of the body. Pink is comforting to the emotional energies. BROWN:
Is associated with a state of grace, silence and peace with God. It is also connected to education.
Brown is the color of the earth and represents practicality, material success, concentration and study.
In the aura, brown indicates "down to earth-ness" and common sense.
In healing, brown can be especially useful for emotional and mental conditions. Brown can help awaken common sense and discrimination. It can help bring an individual back down to earth. It is effective for eliminating that spacey feeling. BLACK:
Is associated with absence of light, profound forgetting, ambition and doorways to other realities.
Black is also associated with evil, darkness, the moon, mystery, magic, profit, expansion and control.
Black represents the unconscious and mystery. Its visualization can help promote deep meditation. Black in the aura, signifies some kind of block or something hidden.
In healing black is a protective color. It contains the entire spectrum of colors, so it can aid in a variety of areas. Black can be used to ground and calm extremely sensitive individuals. It activates the feminine or magnetic energies of the body, strengthening them. Black should be used sparingly, however, because too much black can cause depression or aggravate some emotional and mental conditions. Black is most effective when used in conjunction with white, which balances the polarities of the individual. GRAY & SILVER:
Is associated with wisdom, communication, technology, connection to the stars and space. It is also connected with femininity and initiation.
Gray is also associated with stability, age, balance, neutrality, cloudiness and moodiness.
Gray symbolizes formality, uniformity and sophistication. In the aura, Gray can mean secrecy and loneliness.
In healing silver and gray can be used to amplify the effects of other colors. Silver is effective in helping to discover the root of illness or disease.
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